Collaborative healthcare innovation blog

21 April 2009

The New Economic Playbook for Healthcare

In the Spring of 2008 Zen Chu (Accelerated Medical Ventures) gave what became a groundbreaking presentation and discussion on Venture Capital in Medicine.

Last week, we revisited the subject of VC in Healthcare with Zen, but this time with the aim of talking about the new age. Clearly, the playbook has changed in recent months since the economic slowdown, and to tackle the topic Zen brought along Michael Greeley (Flybridge Capital Partners), Elazer Edelman, MD, PhD (Harvard Medical School/Highland Capital), Joe Smith, MD, PhD (VP, Emerging Technologies, Johnson & Johnson) and Marsha Moses, PhD (Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School).

What Zen and his crew have brought us is another fundamentally important set of talks that hit home for everyone involved with healthcare.

Zen introduces the healthcare innovation landscape, funding
sources for R&D and commercialization, major value drivers and
funding milestones. He also describes teams needed for medical
ventures and roles for physicians from invention through clinical
trials - running time: 7 minutes

Here are the New Playbook for Healthcare Innovation presentation
slides, including some not shown in the video. Zen Chu's popular
presentation High Impact Clinical Innovation: Strategies and Techniques
are also linked below.